William
Gates III(world's
richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.

$40.0
billion

Microsoft

USA

53yo
- Married, 3 children

54.
Venezuela

Gustavo
Cisneros & family

$3.8
billion

Venezuela

63yo

Australia

TOP
10 - Australia's Richest People ...
(11
March 2009)
...Wealth
in USD$...
compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com

Name

Wealth
US$

Source

Residence

Personal

1.
Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born)

$2.7
billion

retail
property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping
mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand,
the U.S. and Britain)

Sydney

78yo
- Married, 3 children

2.
James Packer
(father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005)

$2.5
billion

inherited
(media/Entertainment)

Sydney

41yo
-Married (to model turned singer/songwriter
Erica Baxter)

3.
Gina Rinehart(Battled
for 14 years to win control of his assets from her stepmother)

$1.9
billion

mining

Perth

55yo
- Widowed, 4 children

3.
Andrew Forrest (nicknamed
Twiggy)

$1.9
billion

mining,
metals

Perth

47yo
- Married, 3 children

5.
Harry Triguboff (born in China
to Russian parents )

$1.5
billion

residential
property development (Biggest builder
of apartments in Australia)

Sydney

76yo
- Married, 2 children

5.
Richard Pratt (onetime actor
... In Oct 2007 Visy admitted colluding with its main competitor
Amcor to fix prices in the corrugated box industry. Pratt apologized
for his role in cartel and paid $33 million fine to Australian
government.)

1.
Sergey Brin (school
drop out ... son of a professor ... emigrated from Russia)

$12.0
billion

Google
(bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65
billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early
Nov 2007)

USA

35yo
- Married

2.
Larry Page (school
drop out ... son of a professor)

$12.0
billion

Google
(bought
Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time
high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007)

USA

36yo
- Married

3.
Daniel Ziff

$3.5
billion

USA

37yo

4.
John Arnold (raised
by a lawyer dad and accountant mom)

$2.7
billion

hedge
funds

USA

35yo
- Married

5.
Malvinder & Shivinder Singh

$2.6
billion

India

33yo

6.
Sergei Popov

$2.4
billion

Russia

37yo

7.
Yang HuiyanYOUNGEST
FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!

$2.3
billion

real
estate (received 58% stake in real estate
developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father,
Yeung Kwok Keung)

China

27yo
- Married

8.
Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives
in one of the family castles ... went to high school in Rome;
studied economics and theology in Scotland ... racecar driver,
tours with a German auto-racing league)
YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE!

$2.1
billion

inherited,
diversified (his 30,000 hectares of woodland
in Germany is considered one of the largest forest holdings
in Europe)

6.
David Rockefeller Sr (Grandson
of visionary oil baron John D. Rockefeller now working to
give away his fortune ... Beetle enthusiast has one of largest
collections in world: 160,000 specimens)

$2.2
billion

Standard
Oil, banking

USA

93yo
- Widowed, 6 children

7.
Eugen Viehof & family

$1.9
billion

92yo

8.
John Anderson

$1.8
billion

91yo

9.
Leonore Annenberg

$1.7
billion

91yo

10.
Albert Ueltschi

$1.4
billion

91yo

11.
Walter Shorenstein & family (Uni
drop out ... began buying commercial property in San Francisco
after discharge from military 1946, at one time owned 20%
of city's office space)

$1.0
billion

real
estate

USA

94yo
- Widowed, 2 children

Ernest Gallodied
6 Mar 2007,12
days short of his 98th birthday. He was worth $1.3 billion.Anacleto Angelinidied
28 August 2007, age 93. He was worth $6.0 billion.John
Simplot died
May 25, 2008, age 99. He was the OLDEST BILLIONAIRE
in 2008, worth
$3.8 billion.